Manual of microbiological methods

1957·18.9 MB·English

by  American Society for Microbiology. Committee on Bacteriological Technic

Marine Biological Laboratory Library
Voods Hole, Massachusetts

Manual of Microbiological Methods

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MANUAL OF
Microbiological Methods
BY THE
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS
Committee on Bacteriological Technic
]M. J. Pelczar, Jr., Chairman
R. C. Bard M. W. Jennison
G. W. Burnett A. P. McKee
H. J. Conn, Editor A. J. Riker
R. D. DeMoss J. Warren
E. E. Evans O. B. Weeks
F. A. Weiss
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC
New York Toronto London
1957
MANUAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
Copyright (c) 1957 by the Society of American Bacteriologists. Copyright,
1923, 1926, 1936, 1946, by the Society of American Bacteriologists. Printed
in the United States of America. All rights reserved. This book, or parts
thereof, may notbereproducedinanyformwithoutpermissionofthepublishers.
ThemethodsgivenherehavenotbeenapprovedformallybytheSocietyofAmeri-
canBacteriologists. TheuseofportionsofthetextoftheUnitedStatesPharma-
copeia, 15th Revision, official December 15, 1955, is by permission received
from the Board of Trustees of the United States Pharmocopeial Convention.
The said Board is not responsible for any inaccuracies of the text thus used.
Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number 57-8629
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Committee Members and Other Contributors
Allen, 0. N. Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wis.
Ark, p. a. Division of Plant Pathology, University of California, Berkeley,
Calif.
*Bard, R. C. Smith Kline & French Laboratories, Philadelphia 1, Pa.
Bartholomew, J. W. Department of Bacteriology, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles 7, Calif.
*BuRNETT, G. W. Dental Division, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,
Washington, D.C.
tCoHEN, Barnett Formerly, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Md.
*CoNN, H. J. Emeritus, Division of Food Science and Technology, N.Y.
Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y.
*DeMoss, R. D. Department of Bacteriology, University of Illinois, Urbana,
111.
*EvANS, E. E. Department of Microbiology, Medical Center, University of
Alabama, Birmingham 3, Ala.
HiLDEBRAND, E. M. Horticultural Field Station, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Beltsville, Md.
HiLDEBRANDT, A. C. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wis.
*Jennison, M. W. Department ofBacteriology, Syracuse University, Syracuse
10, N.Y.
LiNDBERG, Robert B. Department of Bacteriology, Walter Reed Army Insti-
tute of Research, Washington, D.C.
McClung, L. S. Department of Bacteriology, Indiana Universitj^, Blooming-
ton, Ind.
*McKee, a. p. Department of Bacteriology, College of Medicine, State Uni-
versity of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
*Pelczar, M. J., Jr. Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland,
College Park, Md.
*RiKER, A. J. Department of Pknt Pathology, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wis.
*Warren, Joel Division ofBiologicalStandards, NationalInstitutesofHealth,
Bethesda 14, Md.
*Weeks, 0. B. Department of Bacteriology, University of Idaho, Moscow^
Idaho
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*Weiss, F. a. American T3'pe Culture Collection, 2029 Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
*Members of Committee on Bacteriological Technic, 1955-7
tDeceased